Archive for the ‘ligotti’ Category
Over at Infinite Thought, Nina has a post critiquing a ‘race to the bottom’ in contemporary philosophy; a trend in thought which purportedly draws politics from the laws of nature and asserts the meaninglessness of nature and philosophy. The post makes a number of statements which need to be addressed. Nick has addressed some of […]
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Tags: ecology, ligotti, nature, philosophy of nature, Schelling
Slime, Time, Space
The alchemist term azoth stretches from the beginning to the end in its etymological roots and unites cohesion and corrosion. This term may have inspired Lovecraft’s gibbering monstrosity known as Azathoth. This blind idiot god, I argue, is somewhere between or perhaps an interpenetration of Oken’s Zero and Plotinus’ One.
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Tags: azathoth, lovecraft, slime
Darkening Life/Notes on Henry
Michel Henry’s construction of a purely affective process phenomenology holds wonderful fodder for non-anthropic darkening and spatio-temporal softening. Whereas Henry seems to see the world as pure affectivity with distinc layers and hiearchies (which, unfortuneatly is somehow anchored in divinity) what is philosophically troubling is his assumption of positivity, his attacks on science and his […]
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The Creep of Life
“In places it rose into horrible, fantastic mounds, which seemed almost to quiver, as with a quiet life, when the wind blew across them. Here and there it took on the forms of vast fingers, and in others it just spread out flat and smooth and treacherous. Odd places, it appeared as grotesque stunted trees, […]
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Notes on Absolute Inhumanism
From My Work is not yet Done: “A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, either by natural or supernatural means, is a nightmarish obscenity. C: The very notion of a grand […]
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